1. Popular Music and Contemporary U.S. Culture
Theodor Adorno, a critical theorist and leading member of the Frankfurt school in Germany, coined the term culture industry in his critique of mass culture that made specific reference to popular music. ... The whole structure of popular music is standardized even where the attempt is made to circumvent standardization. (1941, 302) Thus, in Adorno's view, popular music fails to negate the dominant social order, encompass an oppositional stance, or express critical thought. ...
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